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OpenAPI Initiative
Linux Foundation
TL;DR;
OpenAPI = Specification
Swagger = Tooling
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IL-Code
Meta data
Swagger.json
Documentation
Webserver with Swagger UI
Swashbuckle.Swagger by Richard Morris
SwaggerGen & SwaggerUI
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• Document methods / endpoints
• Document model / schema information
• Enrich this as much as possible
• Exclude certain endpoints from documentation
• Enable AuthN & AuthZ with Swagger UI
• Combine with API Versioning
• Customize documentation UI
• Generate client code to consume our API
• Test our API
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• Why we need Web API documentation
• What is OpenAPI and Swagger
• Swashbuckle.Swagger can automatically generate that for us
• Swagger UI enables developers to explore our API interactively
• The document can be used to generate client code
• The document can be used to generate test boilerplates
• We don’t have to do that manually and safe a lot of tedious work & time
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• OpenAPI
• Formerly Swagger Specification & Tools by Smartbear Software
• Open Source as well as commercial / closed source components
• Smartbear Software & other companies (Google, IBM & Microsoft) started the
Open API Initiative in Nov. 2015 under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation
• Smartbear contributed its Swagger specification to the initiative
• The initiative released the official OpenAPI specification 3.0 in Oct. 2017
• Smartbear Software continues to maintain their Swagger toolings
(Swagger Editor, Swagger CodeGen, Swagger UI, etc.)
• TL;DR;
• OpenAPI = Specification
• Swagger = Tooling
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• Documentation
• Endpoints and data structures / schemas
• Example data, example calls
• Understandable
• Explorable
• Searchable
• Ideally as much automated as possible
• Ideally as multi-purpose as possible
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• .NET (luckily) offers a lot of metadata at runtime
• Tooling is capable of automatically extracting a lot of
documentation-relevant data directly from our IL code
• Swashbuckle.Swagger for .NET (Core) projects
• From Richard Morris (Getty Images, not Smartbear)
• Automatically generates an OpenAPI document (swagger.json)
using a custom Swagger Generator
• Automatically displays a web page with our Web API documentation
using Swagger UI from Smartbear
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• To be able to use a Web API, you need some sort of client
• Web API clients usually consist of a ton of boilerplate code
• They only differ in parameters, body format, http method and response format
• All of that is known and documented
• All information in available in our OpenAPI 3.0 document (swagger.json)
• We can use that to automatically generate clients
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• When we write endpoints, we want to make sure they really work as expected
• Postman helps in manual & automated testing
• Setting up all the requests manually is tedious
• Postman can import our swagger.json to pre-fill most of our requests
• Postman tests use
• Chai Assertion Library
• tv4 (Tiny Validator for v4 JSON Schema) (marked as deprecated)
• Ajv (Another JSON Schema Validator) (still needs manual import)
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• https://thinktecture.com/sebastian-gingter
• https://github.com/thinktecture/basta-spring-2020-openapi
• https://speakerdeck.com/phoenixhawk/basta-spring-2020-openapi
• https://www.openapis.org/
• https://swagger.io/
• https://github.com/domaindrivendev/Swashbuckle.AspNetCore
• https://github.com/microsoft/aspnet-api-versioning
• https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-codegen
• https://www.getpostman.com/
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/newman
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@phoenixhawk
[email protected]
Slides & Code-Samples:
https://www.thinktecture.com/sebastian-gingter
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